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Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcoholic Drinks
Who will drink less when minimum pricing for alcohol is introduced? The spectre of young people bingeing on cheap supermarket booze before setting out on evening revels in pubs and clubs has been a...
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Research: What you eat isn’t as important as when you eat it.
It seems that what you eat isn’t as important as when you eat it. New research by Satchindananda Panda, at the Salk Institute in California, has found that mice who ate a high fat diet in an 8 hour...
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Treatment of Drug Addiction: When is it successful?
When can we say that treatment of drug addiction has been successful? The problem of deciding what constitutes success, or even improvement has generated heated debate between therapists, most notably...
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The World of Gambling
“Let’s Back our Boys and Bet NOW!” “Bet in play NOW!” The above exhortations, and others in the same vein, were made in raucous advertisements shown on live TV coverage just before kick-off and at...
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In 1992, Jeremiah McDonald, aged 12, made a video recording of himself having a conversation with an imaginary him in 20 years time. Well, that time has come and Jeramiah has replied to himself. Apart...
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Self-licensing: A Route to Addiction
A couple of weeks ago (16th August, on BBC3; “Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery”), Russell Brand launched a hard-hitting attack on conventional approaches to drug addiction: first, he...
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‘Natural Recovery’ from Addiction: Implications for Treatment
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA...
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Hope for Depressed Addicts
Not so long ago Alcoholics Anonymous was regarded with condescension by many professionals working in the addiction field. A common view was that science-based techniques, like Cognitive Behaviour...
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Latest Addition: CES Treatment
Recovery from addiction, depression and anxiety is a windy path. It’s also a different path for each of us. At PROMIS we try our hardest to offer every effective treatment we can find that will add...
View ArticlePROMIS Research in Progress: Some early findings
Some 7 months ago, following the start of my work as Director of Research, PROMIS agreed to conduct an experimental trial of new interventions based on proven practices that have emerged within the...
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Helping Patients Suffering from Trauma using Eye Movement Desensitization and...
Introduction to EMDR The precise neural mechanism for how eye movements affect emotional status is unclear, but the fact is they do. It is almost as though a broad view of the horizon from left to...
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The World of Gambling
“Let’s Back our Boys and Bet NOW!” “Bet in play NOW!” The above exhortations, and others in the same vein, were made in raucous advertisements shown on live TV coverage just before kick-off and at...
View ArticleBack to the Future
In 1992, Jeremiah McDonald, aged 12, made a video recording of himself having a conversation with an imaginary him in 20 years time. Well, that time has come and Jeramiah has replied to himself. Apart...
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Latest Addition: CES Treatment
Recovery from addiction, depression and anxiety is a windy path. It’s also a different path for each of us. At PROMIS we try our hardest to offer every effective treatment we can find that will add...
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Self-licensing: A Route to Addiction
A couple of weeks ago (16th August, on BBC3; “Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery”), Russell Brand launched a hard-hitting attack on conventional approaches to drug addiction: first, he...
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‘Natural Recovery’ from Addiction: Implications for Treatment
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA...
View ArticlePROMIS Research in Progress: Some early findings
Some 7 months ago, following the start of my work as Director of Research, PROMIS agreed to conduct an experimental trial of new interventions based on proven practices that have emerged within the...
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Hope for Depressed Addicts
Not so long ago Alcoholics Anonymous was regarded with condescension by many professionals working in the addiction field. A common view was that science-based techniques, like Cognitive Behaviour...
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Helping Patients Suffering from Trauma using Eye Movement Desensitization and...
Introduction to EMDR The precise neural mechanism for how eye movements affect emotional status is unclear, but the fact is they do. It is almost as though a broad view of the horizon from left to...
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Antidepressant effectiveness rated
This week a research study was published in the medical journal “The Lancet” which aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of many different antidepressants. This wasn’t new research per say, but a huge...
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